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- From: dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Another good reason to vote for Bush
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.000901.6922@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <BsxsG4.MuG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <ohgc6so@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Aug13.202157.23639@gordian.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:09:01 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Aug13.202157.23639@gordian.com>
- mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
-
- > The fallacy here, of course, is that a person does not have a
- > right to life; a person has the right to the *pursuit* of life. Nature
- > does not provide food-and-shelter trees which are freely available.
- > Rights are rights of potential, not substance. A fetus cannot demand
- > the sacrifice of another persons rights just by *being*, any more
- > than you can demand me to sacrifice my life to your benifit without
- > my permission.
-
- This paragraph is logically incoherent. The poster assumes
- that a fetus is a person, and then he goes on to claim that a
- fetus cannot demand the sacrifice of another person's right
- to pursue life. Yet he also claims that a person is entitled
- to demand the sacrifice of the fetus' right to pursue life,
- who is also a person.
-
- The last sentence seemingly gives credence to the pro-life
- viewpoint, since a person would not be entitled to demand the
- sacrifice of the fetus' life to provide for their benefit.
-
- >Michael Thomas (mike@gordian.com)
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger, aka DearOldDoug
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